Courts & Crime

Police arrested a Louisville woman on DUI charges early Thursday after she allegedly hit a tractor-trailer on I-71 near Crestwood.
Oldham County Police arrested Jennifer M. Lay, 21, 1116 Tindall Lane, Louisville, at 1 a.m. Aug. 18.
According to police, Lay was allegedly involved in a non-injury crash with a tractor-trailer after her vehicle crossed the center line.

Police clocked a La Grange woman allegedly driving 96 mph on Interstate 71 while intoxicated early Saturday morning.
Oldham County Police arrested Jennifer Kristine Brown, 41, 2626 Sunningdale Place, La Grange, about 2:30 a.m. Saturday near the Buckner exit.
Brown was housed in the Oldham County Jail and released later the same day.

A La Grange woman who previously worked as a special needs teacher for Oldham County Schools is now charged with sexual abuse and distributing obscene photos to students in a neighboring school district.

Police are investigating eight daytime burglaries within an eight-hour span in Pewee Valley, a series of vehicle break-ins in Crystal Lake and a host of other reports of burglary and theft in the past two weeks as officials work to rectify a growing problem.

A La Grange man owes more than $2,900 to local water companies after his prank left more than a thousand homes with little or without water pressure as firefighters scrambled to shut off gushing fire hydrants.

A so-called prank left more than a thousand Oldham and Henry County homes with little or without water pressure this week as firefighters scrambled to shut off gushing fire hydrants and police searched for the pranksters.